About Thomas Bastiaan Pleyte
Lived 1864 – 1926 (aged 61). Thomas Bastiaan Pleyte was a Dutch politician, lawyer and jurist.
Thomas Bastiaan Pleyte (23 October 1864 in Leiden – 25 March 1926 in The Hague) was a Dutch politician.
Pleyte was Minister of the Colonies in the cabinet of Pieter Cort van der Linden. He became known as a liberal minister who founded the People's Council in 1916, a move that is widely regarded as the important first step to give the native population of the Netherlands East Indies (now Indonesia) an equal say in government. Pleyte was fluent in Malay and Javanese.
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Dutch politician (1864–1926)
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Thomas Bastiaan Pleyte was born on 23 October 1864.
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Thomas Bastiaan Pleyte died on 25 March 1926.
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Thomas Bastiaan Pleyte was a politician, lawyer and jurist.
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Thomas Bastiaan Pleyte was Dutch.
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